Jason Knapp

Highly touted rookie pitcher Jason Knapp pitched twice against Kannapolis. Lakewood lost both games but Knapp had a Jekyl and Hyde like set of starts. In the first game, Knapp only last 3.0 innings, giving up 6 earned runs off of 7 hits, 2 walks, and 3 strikeouts. Knapp faced virtually the same lineup 5 days later, with drastically different results. Although he only lasted five innings, Knapp scattered 3 hits, walked one, hit one, and struck out 9. The most impressive thing about the nine strikeouts is that five of the nine were the first five batters of the game.

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od (A): The big story down at Lakewood for the last month or so has been the pitching staff, namely Jason Knapp. He has 44 strikeouts in 6 starts (32.2 IP). Where had started off fantastic with

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